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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02
Tho Prevailing Stage Superstifinns

Il is well known that in no profession are
supcrStitions more prevalent than in the
dramatic. They are not at all admitted
superstitions but they still exist to greater
or less degree. AuGuS:in DAILY has recently
named his new play Love IN Harness y
lie tries always to Gct three names into his
titles for luck, ~ and 50 his play bills give
"A Night or" Love on Clutches. =
Nancy 81 Co, D." After business Hours. -
etc. Lester WALLACE, il is sail. has super
stition that death scenes are uuluc,,y, and he
Will not now permit them on his stage. Gil
bert and sullivan werc at one time reported
TO have a SuIrr-titinuS lre,lilection for pieces
that began with Il, AMI even - first cave
their = MIkado' the rSIuC OF ''IOohhak = 10
that it might follow tie SUCCESSES Of Pima
fore. " Patience. Pirates Of Penzanc,.. -
Princess nni PERI ''IoIInthc'D and Prin-
cess Ida-' The latest instance Of SJIpaTsti-
ton Is the refusal OF Z. New York manager
to ouen with his Kew star. Marguerite Fish
on December -, because Is j. un!ucky As
the 18th comes ON a Monday, however, a
good maET plays must open on that day -
Hartford Times.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02

The question of the preservation of GU
orange crop has become of vast impor
tance TO every inhabitant of our section
It's destruction does not reduce us to beg
gary as grasshoppers or floods starve the
inhabitants Of other States, but its loss
means the cessation of all solid improve
ments, and the deprivation of all luxu
ries To a people whose tastes have been
taught to regard pleasure as necessary.
The very fear of what may happen will
rush large proportion of the next crop
into market, and low prices will be real
lied ON ali. while the report of "glutted
markets will again carry dismay as we'll
as material loss TO heart and pocket.
1t Is thus seen that we must pro, ide
against the precipitancy of our people a.
we'll rs the RISKS attending all crops tx
posed To the weather-a baseless panic
may produce loss as severe as solid
freeze. Therefore we guard with as
much care against the one as the other
and the prrjudIces of the ignorant and
the fears of the timid enter legitimately
a factors in the solution of a problem on
which depends the reward of careful in
dustry, the profits of the business man
and thu prosperity of a whole section.
\ combination between a conscience
less crank and interested agents may rob
us in measure of our visitors whenever
the work can he made mutually advan-
tageous. and the movements of tourists
are at all times dependent ON the DEGREES
of fashion or the whims of the leaders in
great cities and transportation circles.
The railroads and corporations have ad-
yertjSed us, and our unrivaled hotels
have brought the whole world to our
doors that our advantages might be seen.
Let us be thankful for the past. but with
that feeling let us cherish no trace of
gratitude for favors about to be revived
Let US rely on our own energies. and let
those who come hereafter be cow incAd
10y their eyes that we can help ourselves
then they will he anxious to help us,
for their advantag. as vel! as ours.
In this connection the views of our
experienced fruit culturists should have
great weight IN debating line of policy.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02

Our esteemed contemporary, the Morn
Jug MFRS, of Jacksonville, is one year
old to-day, and celebrates it's first ami
yersary in mammoth number which is
If unusual interest. 1t is a healthy
babe, whose appearance gives promise.
of many years of lusty life, and whose
pugnacity long since reached years of
full msturity. Over il cradle, as over
our ., stood grinnIng roe and a bitter
warfare for existence was begun with
the first breath. But around the neck of
that foe all Florida reads the motto cdte
cuHrm, and the eyes once dropped in al
mIratiOn or fear are now uplifted to
critIc,se or condemn. the young Her
cules may yet strange his Cerberus and
the public has amply testified its appre
citation of the combatant " no is no longer
the "under dog in the fight"
The canine the ancients babe us fear
was always a stone figure, and our snarler
il fast becoming fossil which will bs'
valued only Us "a reminder of the bitter
past.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02
Northern Correspondence.
Special Corr espOnhence PaIntka NEws.
LITTLE BEARVIIL.E. y. y,
Jan. 81. 1857.


LITTLE BEAEVIIIE. y. Y,
Jan. 81. 1857.
Why do we subscr he? Because We
want daily and weekly news from Flor
ida, and are convinced that YOU tell the
truth, even under trying circumstances
You can't recall when you deserved the
compliment: Never mind th,, time,
which we don't expect tn see again in &
half century, when those who had or
anges out the second week in January
wished their harvest home. Yet the
golden fruit smiles upon you from tile
same trees to-day, AMI such is vour
faith in "FrcZen Florida" that you Il ont
gather it. Up here IN Yankee land We
guess" if your climate were as intense
as some New York papers made it. YOU
wouldn't be So ''shiftlese" a. to risk the
oranges out.
My contemporary, Gail Hamilton, saws
it Is "a tremendous endorsement of a
man to marry hum and isn't it a ire
mendOus endOrSemt mt of Putnam
county to buy almost hundred acrs eff
its soil, and, during that worst year.
into young orange. grove and market
garden? That is my endorsement. and
the first repentant tear is yet To be shed.
Ii was foolish within of mine To- want
my groves and market gardens Month of
he frost line" Ii was hard to find a
man who owned to any SUCH location;
but, hunting round with that lantern one.
noon | found him, and bought the land :;
yes. in Putnam county. There are sew
eral things Northerners are slow to com
prehend: one of them is that an orange
tree will endure frost. Surely we ought
to know that nothing can he cultivated
anywhere without risk. Whose feet So
firmly planted as ours upon that Cursed
Is the ground" and If I'm Adams tall
we sinned oh" why expect Florida to he
exempt? Where Is the spot of earth su
premely blest, whose crops are secure
from risk q?
No one thinks of disparaging a North
ern farm because its orchards are
stripped, even 1.-The bearing year" by
frost, drought or insect. The event IL
too frequent tn secure evena passing no
tice. The patient farmer tolls on with
his ever disappointing crops. Oh. what
patience, to wiring "a living" from cur
farms. Just here poyato-s are the pay
ing crop. They throve in the early sum
mer then were badly hurt by drought.
No one worried or complained.
Oh, don't let me forget the bugs, OF
course the fields all had TO b. watered
with solution of Paris green or London
purple during that thriving time. Then
what the bugs left. and the drought did
not spoil. must be snatched from an early
freeze. In that rush TO market it was
hard to secure thirty cents a bushel AT
the cars. or twenty-five at the pile IN
the field. So they were mostly stored
IN cellars, only To- be unstored ON DAYS
when it Is not colder than Is above
think OF the labor-and taken shut up
and wrapped up in sleIShs, six or ten
miles To- warm ears. And after all they
only sell for thirty five cents in our own
county. No one speaks of it as hard. no
paper heralds an impoverished State of
New York.
For all the opinion Of your ''close OF F
servers" that cold snap of the 18th inst
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02
Store-Honse for Fruit.

The only objection to storing oranges
il the urgent need of ready cash t, Ii b,
all growers in the early months of the
winter. IL has been demonstrated thai
the JI'HH trW Keep. Why cannot a store
house with proper ventilation be pre-
pared for ITS reception in Palatkat Tn.
grower could store his fruit receive q
certificate of its reception from the party
in charge and on this obtain advance
for his immediate needs. We already
have suitable buildings, the plan would
aid the concentration of the fruit and
assist in controlling the market; it would
benefit the grower IA we'll the merchant
the warehouse would be AN attraction
to our visitors. It could be made q
standing exposition of our products
where our agricultural and horticultural
advantages would appeal to the senses.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02
PALATKA, FLA, FEB. 2. 1887.

Our Northern correspondent from
Little BearvIlIe' has adopted nom de
yI,f,ne which is as yet strange, but the
racy pen will be recognized by many as
an old favorite. The actual name and
residence IS as familiar to many as to us,
but in making venture into new fields
it is preferred to win unprejudiced ad-
miration. Under the racy style lies a
strict regard for truth, and our farmers
will find the details in their peculiar
province as trustworthy as the sketches
of hone-Iife under colder sky. We
have TO doubt that the mercury at a.
III. on January 18th was exactly as
stated, and that the potatoes suffered &C
curding to the book.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02

OF such men is the Pencil Horticultural
Society composed. At its last meeting
the following was unanimously made a
part of the record:
Resolved, That this society recon-
mends the formation of cooperative So
cieties throughout the orange belt of
Florida, for the purpose of erecting suit
able buildings in which to store and pre-
serve at least one-half the annual orange
crop, so as to avoid the effects of the
earlier low markets and later destruct-
i've frOsts; and that a committee be APP
pointed to formulate plan and to bring
the subject in some definite shape before
an early subse quent meeting.
No late action of any body of men has
ises to he in shaping the future manage
ment of our great crop. Millions of dol
lars are interested in the solution of a
difficulty on which our most thoughtful
citizens are divided. Mr.. Greenleaf, Maj.
Fairbanks and their associates of the
Fruit Exchange have done much they
have demonstrated that an association
of fruit culturists for mutual advantage
was both possible and proper. Rev. INV
Thomas, of Putnam county, is a gentle
man of wide experience, practical views,
aud of great influence throughout our
section. Says he:
From the first to the fifteenth OF
December is the very best tine to
pick and put away oranges. I'll ~
will stand more exposure and rough
handling, and keep longer than if picked
at any other period OF the season. Ii
put into trays, one deep, viii remain
sound three or four months with Ger
tainty. Had himself preserved them IN
that manner until they naturally dritd
up, and they were yet sound, Mr..
Thomas expresses himself that there Is
no Use sacrificing Florida oranges by the
present reckless management they re-
ceive"
The foil, wing extracts from the min
utes of the society as published III TIL
interest in this connection
VIM. RecOrds-When the crop is ready
Tor ripe) for the market the growers are
ready for the cash, and cannot buck
against the wolf at the door. Men OF
means might buy and hold, but small
growers are positively unable to do So
the fruit before the scheme Will work.
LeyvraZ-So, II company Is then the
proper thing. We want an experiment
Thomas-We need cooperative Hort
An association should be formed cover
ing the whole orange territory. Thinks
there may at times he something wrong
with the most reputable commission
houses. Had official info TmatIon tha
a certain shipment made by hum was
sold on DeC.m ber 9Th. ut which date
quoted prices were entirely satisfactory
In january the account sales were dated
the returns falling little short of Il dol
lar box.
Recoris-It is the mCst foolish thlng
IN the world for n small produces
To ship on LIS own account. He can ~
Just AS much ut home from buyers as
and often more than his ''returns" vii
generally be. Producers should associate
and ,b,igate themselves to stand To
gether.
Leyvraz-E Every body can not go into /
company. "A few must begin it, th"I
others will follow.
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Maverick National Bank
Bo~TO MASS.

Accounts "t Banks, Bankers ami Corpor-
attBus solicited.
our taCiIitits for COLLECTIONS are eAccl-
tent ana We re-tIScuunt for Banks when bal
ances warrant il.
bnsf"n y Reserve City. ana balances with
liz from Banks tnnt located in OTHER Reserve
cries count reserve.
" :. draw our own Exchange or London and
the Continent. and " ah' Gable transfers and
place money 10y telegraph throughout the
utted STATES and Canada.
government Bonds bought and sold, end
Exchanges III Washington mad. for lmuks
without extra charge.
We have a narkc, tor prime tir, t-cnss In
Ncstuent Securities, and iuVi,c pro 1-als
itou STATES, Counties and Cuics VIII, n issuing
bonds.
We do gene raj banking business. and in
vifc correspondence.
ASA T.. POTTER. President.
JOS. w. WORN Cashier
Oc:it-W &SaGm
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Address TIE NEWS,
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MONEY

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ire, somtIlu T. 81 great Nuluo
ana importance 60 Nul, thai vii RIA you "a
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mayn't he the wind up" You say it
hadn't harmed vegetables so far as
heard from" You now hear that it
killed nearly all our egg plants. Did you
class them In the animal kingdom: On
that 18th, rather morning eff 18th. we
got almost too low To snap. To rise from
slumber and find oneself IN 40 below
Zero II sOiemniZirg. NORTH
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02
Assignee's Notice.

NOTICE Il HEREBY GIVEN THAT F T.
= Young has this da y tle ass ilsums m
tO of all her ROPE y TOr tie benefit
her creditors. " sthOut n y Vrefs Fences A g.
Persons indebted to said T.. I. lOut W II 81
sl- With me End tbnSe hay ing Cld nI- aga n>i
said Young val present SAID cain IL u-e .UI
settlement. jos. r.. BALDWIN,
A~s'gnse.
RAE OWN y COCHRAN, AttoTHrNs.
Fatatka, -. January 81. 49, f.1-ttW
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SDJTHW ARD. 40.
\ January Trip From New York TO
Florida From Ice and Snow to- -
SKINNER Land.
RESI-.



Correspondence y. Y. Journal Of Commerce.
Ii Is n. yer our custom To spend two
successive nights in sleeping car, if we
can find dry spot. with fresh air. To
rest on. As usual, We left New York for
Washington and passed the first night
there. We left New York on the - lin
tied" at 10 O'Clock a. m on Tuesday. the
18th. You remember the day. \ cold
wave was coming. Ii grew colder every
hour of the day as We sped southwark.
There was n still northwest wind blow
ing. Ice formed on the windows of the
ear all day. We made no long stops but
doubtless the wind and the increasing
cold made It impossible for the engines
to keep up the high steam necessary To
the usual swift time. and we reached
Washington an hour late. Ii was bitter
cold all night IN the Capital City.
On ednesday morning at IL O'Clock
We left in the fast mail train carry ing
the Cuba mail which was due in Tampa
at p. m. on Thursday.
We passed Richmond in the early at
ternoon, Weldon in the cleaning. vii
miUgtuu at half past 10. In former
Years the difference III gauge in the rail
way south of WIlmIn gton made il neces-
sary here TO change the trucks under the
sleeping cars and 10 wake up all who had
gone 10 bed early. Tins Is no longer the
ease. The Southern gauge was altered
ON all rails last spring. We can run qui
city m and quietly out OF the Wilmington
station, and So on to South Carolina.
Ii WIS stall very cold. Ice was on
10th sides of the track. over all stand
ing water. At half past | went ont
i'sto the delicious night-hir. while the
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02
Parker'S lnterlaChen Dye Works

4 IL klNIS OF LADIES' SILK A"p
~ Wooit' II Dresses pS cd AMI Cleaned with
ont tipping. Gent om.G'S Clothing 81, AN, Il
ahd Dyed ~ -" most peri, - manner. Also
flafin AMI Table Covers, innbtcpuins. etc.
r. X. fARRAk Co, agents for PHiutka
tdfn '" pffces. etc. dclG IL
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02
Assignee S Sale.

ASS1GNE OF SALFM GRAHAM |
x " i'll sell at public ancrion in front of the
court house, al IA aka. az IL O'Clock m, on
VI nday, February .Ih. l., :, the accounts toe
longing To said estate, ard also all right and
title OF Salem Graham VI and To a. real estate
included in the deed of A. ignucnt of salem
6 aham to W. ii. WigE. assignee. said iced
l. on record in the Jerks rfiice OF Putnam
county. Terms OF sale cash
fcl-itd W II. WIGti. Assignee.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02

Senator sherman and Gen. sherman ars
said Ia exchange letters almost daily when
out Of one aupthers society 'Cump IL
what John always calls the soldier, and
'.No.r. John. " is the style that ia" general
use IN acut,~tiHs the = natOr.-NeW ork
Times.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02

HFpIsTERFD Al THE FALATKA Posi- OFFICE
As SECOND-CLAss MAIL MATTER
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-02
Notice.

THE FIRM OF RICHARDSON 4 90. HAS
lhis lay been dissolved. hS th, retirement
81 Nr. l. D'Ncston from The business and n
new copartnership has been formed under
the same tlrm name of Richardson A Co MIR
partner. RIcUARDspN A 90
January 10, IsS1. inI5 Itw
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-04

demand. Wheat-Receipts, 2l3, 400 blu; e1-
ports, 6,955 bu: sales, S,56s, 300 bu futures
and $4,000 bu spot; spot lots A@%c and OPP
lions 1000 higher, closing firm; export
trading fairly active; speculation moderate;
No. 2 Milwaukee, 92093hc; No. l hard,
9718c; ungraded red, S50Ss5sc; No. red,
93Ac; No. 2 red, 94szc store, 95Ac ele-
vator, 95Ac f. O. b.; No. red. 9Sc:
No. white, 96c; extra red, 9Sssc delivered;
No. red, May, 932s@941Sc, closing at 94Ac;
June, 93s4@94 5-l6c, closing at 9414c; July,
93}ac, closing at 94c; August, 921s@921ac,
closing at 921ac; September, 92ss092s4c.
closing at $3.50; December, 951a096c,
closing at 95Mc; May QsSs),
SI.0OA@1. O0s4, closing at $1.009s.
Corn-Receipts 1850 blu; exports, 20, 1888 bu;
sales, 3l2, 900 bu futures and $1,000 bu spot;
spot lots 14@1ac and options 1s@Ac higher,
closing firm and quiet; ungrnded, 4Ss4@50c
steamer, 4s14O4S1lc elevator; No. 2, 4S1&@49c
elevator, 50]4c deliyered; No. 2 May, 1870
475sc, closing at 472sc; June, 4s@4S14c, clos
ing at 4614c; July, 4914@49s4c, closing at
49hc: August 5014@5019c, closing at 50hc;
September, 81 3-l6@5lac, closing at size.
Oats-Receipts, $4,000 blu; exports. $4,000 blu;
market moderately active; mixed Western, 81
@37c: white Western, 3S@42c. Coffee, fair;
Rio dull at 1910; options less active and
lower; sales, 1900 bags; May, $l4.70; June,
$l4.S0O14.S5; July, $14.95@15; August, $l5.05
@l5.10: September, $l5.l0015.20; October,
$15.25; November, SIS. 2e0l5.30; Decem-
Der, $15.30Q15.35; January, $3.50.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-04
CONTRACT WORK.
Street Sprinkling,

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, l
CITY OF ST. PAUL, MIMI. April %, 1887.
Sealed bids will be received by the Board of
Public Works in and for the corporation
of the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, at
their Office in said city. until IL III. on
the 9Th day of May, A. D. 1887, for the sprink-
ling of such streets, avenues, levees, lanes,
alleys, parks, or other public grounds as may
he ordered sprinkled in Sprinkling Districts
Nos. and ID. by the Common Council Of said
city for the season ending Nov. Is, 1887, ac-
cording.t to plans and specifications Oh file in
tine Office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties in sum
of three thousand ($3,060) dollars must ac-
company each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
r. L. GORMAN, President.
Official:
W. f. ERWIN. Clerk Board Of Public Works.
1l4-l24
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-04
ST. Paul.


Aside from fair demand for oats q lively
request for eggs and moderate call for
flour, the market was dull. The sample Of
ferings of wheat were large and buyers were
not sharp for taking hold, most of them hold
ing back for concessions in prices, but as
holders held out for old prices the market
was dull, good deal going over unsold
Corn was weak and lower and oats dropped
off lie. Barley was dull and weak, declining
&c. kye advanced 1c. Ground feed was
weak and lower. Hay very firm, with a tend
ency to advance. Seeds unchanged Eggs
steady. The call:
Wheat-No. hard, 7sc bid: No. Northern.
nc bid; No. 2 Northern, 75c bid.
Corn-No. 2, 38c bid, 1910 asked; May, 1910
asked.
Oats--No. ] mixed. zoe bid, 3OAc asked !:
May, 29c bid, 301ac asked; June, soc bid, sic
asked; No. ] white, 3e3ac bid, 1870 asked;
No. white, 900 bid.
Barley--No. 2, soc BID.
Rye-No. 2. ASc bid.
Ground Feed-$l5 asked.
Hay--No. I, Sl2 bid; No 2, $50
asked; timothy, $l3 bid.
Flax Seed--g4c bid.
Timothy Seed-Sl.T5 asked.
Clover Seed-$4 asked
Potatoes 0d55c bid, 56Q
EgRs-9c bid, 955c asked
sales-l car No. 4 mt